Vernon Richards

Vernon Richards
Born
Vero Benvenuto Costantino Recchioni

(1915-07-19)19 July 1915
Soho, London, England
Died10 December 2001(2001-12-10) (aged 86)
Hadleigh, Suffolk, England
Education
Occupations
  • Writer
  • Newspaper editor
  • Photographer
MovementAnarchism
Spouse
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(m. 1937; died 1949)​
Partner
    • Peta Hewetson (d.1997)
FatherEmidio Recchioni

Vernon Richards (born Vero Benvenuto Costantino Recchioni, 19 July 1915 – 10 December 2001) was an Anglo-Italian anarchist, editor, author, engineer, photographer, and companion of Marie-Louise Berneri.[1][2][3]

Richards' founding of the paper Spain and the World in 1936 lead to the revival of the British anarchist publisher Freedom Press and the subsequent publishing of the newspaper War Commentary, followed in 1945 by the relaunch of Freedom newspaper.

Richards and Berneri were joined in Freedom Press by a group of regular contributors including John Hewetson, Tony Gibson, Philip Sansom, George Woodcock and Colin Ward.[4] Freedom remained under Richards' editorship until 1968 and he retained a strong influence over Freedom Press until his retirement. He also authored and translated a number of books including Lessons of the Spanish Revolution (1953) and Errico Malatesta: His Life & Ideas (1965).[5]

  1. ^ Ward, Colin (4 February 2002). "Vernon Richards". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  2. ^ Pilgrim, John (13 December 2001). "Vernon Richards". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 27 April 2010.
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  4. ^ Goodway, D. (1 April 2015). "Freedom, 1886-2014: an Appreciation". History Workshop Journal. 79 (1): 233–242. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbv001. ISSN 1363-3554. Retrieved 3 May 2022 – via Oxford Academic.
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